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A follow-up mailing to a letter sent by Bill Cosby inviting participation in the June 4 tour and dedication of the new, five-story TransAfrica national headquarters in the embassy row section of Washington, D.C. Bryant Gumbel, Host of the NBC Today Show, will lead the official dedication ceremony. The new headquarters will house The Arthur R. Ashe Jr. Foreign Policy Library and Resource Center, a national and global research center on foreign policy and the African diaspora. That weekend, the African World Together celebration will include other activities, as well. The Reverend Jesse Jackson will speak about "The African World Together: Building A Partnership" at the Twelfth Annual Foreign Policy Conference luncheon on June 4. The Sixteenth Annual TransAfrica Benefit Dinner on June 5 will be hosted by Blair Underwood and Alfre Woodard. The Honorable Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce, will speak, and several people will be honored. Goler Teal Butcher, international lawyer and human rights activist, will receive the African Freedom Award, and Bryant Gumbel will receive the International Journalism Award. Somali-born model and activist, Iman, will receive the International Humanitarian Award, and His Excellency Michael Manley, former prime Minister of Jamaica, will receive the Distinguished Statesman Award.

African Activist Archive

African World Together: A Homecoming

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